Locco for Gocco

I know that sounds strange. It's not even how you'd spell the word 'loco', or crazy, en espanol. But it is the name of a class that Paper Source used to offer here in Chicago. You know, back in the day when a Gocco machine was readily available for purchase.
Now I'm sure you all remember last fall (you have all of my posts memorized, right?) when I wrote about the plight of the discontinued Gocco. Shucks, I even signed the petition to bring it back!




Well, friends, it seems as though my prayers (and that petition) did not go unanswered. The Gocco is now being imported from Japan and sold at Paper Source, my beloved paper emporium. Of course when I heard the news, I immediately gave notice to my husband. Would the new and improved big daddy of all Gocco machines not be the very best 32nd birthday gift a gal could hope for? Indeed, my friends. Indeed.

So I urged my husband into action. I was fearful that the Gocco crazed "weirdos" (as the kind lady in the Paper Source demo calls them) would storm the stores and deplete their supply. I urged Jack to act now, as supplies were surely limited. He would have to act fast to ensure delivery by October 24th, my birthday.

And it is the result of those actions that allows me to boldly state that I am the new and extremely proud owner (yes, it came within 24 hours, folks) of the big daddy Gocco PG6 machine. Hallelujah and Amen.

for the love of Tord

My new issue of ReadyMade finally came today, and in it was a review for this new book:



I must have it (and if you click here, you can have one, too).

Have a happy weekend, lovelies. Thank you for all the get-well wishes!

xoxo

on the list

I want some of this wallpaper:

how perfect for my paint-by-number wall? I found it here.

xoxo

oh, and before I forget

I got the new Brocade Home catalog last week. I ordered a couple of chairs from them a couple of months ago, and I love them. Thumbs up to Brocade Home, but I don't think I really need anything else from their shop right now. However, you simply must check this out:

Yeah yeah yeah the furniture is fine, but the PINK BBQ is where it's really at. I love it. And if I hadn't made my husband drive around in a cloud car for two years (more on that later if I ever find a photo), then I'd be the first to hop on the pink grill bandwagon. But one, I can't find it anywhere (believe me, I tried); and two, we already have two grills.


oh well.

xoxo

I need this

horror of horrors..and Merry Christmas to me!

I was just getting ready to put pen to paper for this year's Christmas list (my husband requires that I make one, complete with item numbers and other pertinent information), when I made a shocking discovery! It seems that the beloved-by-any-who've-tried-it Print Gocco machine has been discontinued by it's manufacturer, Riso. I learned this while waiting in line to pick my daughter up from school; My son was asleep in the back seat of the minivan, and I was enjoying a few minutes peace and quiet perusing through my new issue of Craft: magazine. Inside, an article by Jill Bliss caught my attention, for it was about the Print Gocco. The very same print Gocco I had meticulously researched last year, and then forgot about when I got on my Kitschy Kitschy Christmas kick (more on that some other time). I was, of course, saddened and dismayed by this news, but cheered up slightly when I learned that the gocco will not go down without a fight. I came home and immediately signed the online petition to Save the Gocco!
How could I not?
In the meantime, my husband can still consider getting me the ice fishing sweater coat from Anthropologie (in case I need to do some ice fishing when we go to Minnesota next month). Oh! And I also want the hand carved deer head (saw this in an Andersonville shop this past weekend and I need it for the new house!) Santa? Anyone?